JUD

Jud was one of my brother Tommy’s many nicknames. We used to call him Tommy Hunter, and then shortened it to Hunter. While visiting a tourist attraction in Victoria, ‘Judge Hunter’s Haunted Mansion’, we started calling him Judge Hunter which got shortened Judge, then Jud. We thought it was a cool sounding band name, The Judds came along much later. Jud consisted of Paul McKinnon (lead guitar & vocals), Jay Schick (bass guitar), Tommy ‘Jud’ Gogo (drums & vocals) & me (lead vocal, guitar & electric piano). My late great buddy Paul McKinnon and I decided we were going to be the next famous “John and Paul Mc” rockstar pairing, we formed the band when we were about 15. We recruited our buddy Jay who didn’t actually play at that point, he was just a good pal who coincidentally many people thought was a Gogo because they thought he looked like a Gogo. Paul and I thought he looked a heck of a lot like Glen Buxton from the original Alice Cooper band, a big bonus. So I bought a $50 pawn shop bass and tried to show him how to play it. In our search for a drummer, we invited several kids our age to come over to play. Most of them, well all of them, needed quite a bit of... more...